Carl Sandburg

48 quotes

"It is the business of little minds to shrink."

Carl Sandburg

"Our lives are like a candle in the wind."

Carl Sandburg

"There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere."

Carl Sandburg

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

Carl Sandburg

"Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder."

Carl Sandburg

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

Carl Sandburg

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life, and as soon as I done it I seen it."

Carl Sandburg

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

Carl Sandburg

"Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost."

Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air."

Carl Sandburg

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they have it when the next test comes."

Carl Sandburg

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg

"It is the business of little minds to shrink."

Carl Sandburg

"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

Carl Sandburg

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

Carl Sandburg

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes."

Carl Sandburg

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

Carl Sandburg

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

Carl Sandburg

"Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality."

Carl Sandburg

"When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along."

Carl Sandburg

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."

Carl Sandburg

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Carl Sandburg

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes."

Carl Sandburg

"It is the business of little minds to shrink."

Carl Sandburg